Stocking



Dec. 30, 1941.

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Patented Dec. 30, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE s'rocxmc Harry E. Katzenmoyer, Hendersonville, N. 0., as-

signor, by, mesne assignments, to Chipman Knitting. Mills, Pennsylvania Easton, Pa., a corporation of Application February 7, 1941, Serial No. 377,810

3 Claims.

objective being attained, as hereinafter more fully disclosed, through the use of plural yarns of the same kind and count in alternation and in repeating sequence during the knitting of said heel portions, and merely increasing the traverse of the carriers for the addition of end loops in the widened courses. l

Another object of this invention is to strengthen the selvages at the upper heel halves which is realized in practice, as also hereinafter more fully explained, by carrying the splicing yarns clear to the selvage loops for incorporation into them. Another object of this invention is to provide a stocking having the above characteristics wherein the rough surfaceof the fabric and the ridge of the rear seam are at the inside of the stocking.

' One embodiment of this invention is typified in the accompanying two sheets of illustrative drawings wherein like characters of reference are applied to corresponding parts in all the views; while the concluding claims more particularly re cite the features of novelty over the prior art.

In the drawings:

"Fi 1 is a side view of a full-fashioned stocking conveniently embodying the present improvemants, with a fragmentary portion broken out to show the rough or wale in-side surface of the fabric. I

Fig. 2 is a broken view illustrative of the manner in which the full-fashioned foot is formed in continuation of the-stocking leg; and,

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary view. showing the texture along one side edge of the widened heel portion of the stocking leg blank.

From Figs. 1 and 2 it will be understood the stocking l is knitted asja continuous blank according to the ringless method from a plurality of main or body yams (in this instance three) of the same kind and count used in alternation and down to a substantially uniform width ankle portion 5.

In accordance with this invention, andbeglnning at the course 6, the" heel portions 1 are shaped by widening 8 with incidental formation of selvages 9, Fig. 3 i followed by maintenance of the width of the fabric uniform for a few courses indicated at H) in Fig. 2; whereupon said heel portions are further shaped by narrowing ll,

in repeating sequence, starting with the welt 2 and ending with the toe tip I; while the leg 4 is shaped, in accordance with conventional practice,

same kind and count followed bycompletion of the foot I? to the toe tip 3 in any approved manner.

Referring now more particularly to Fig. 3, which shows how the widened heel portions I of the stocking l are formed after knitting of the ankle portion 5 to the courses 6, successive widening loop courses l3, II, and 15, are knit of plural body yarns I6, I land III in repeating sequence and inclusion of a reinforcing yarn l9, incidental to addition of plural end loops 20', with attendant formation of interlocking selvage loops'zl which are proof against raveling.

Immediately after the running in of the uni-' form width ankle portion 5, the lower halves H of the heel projections 7 are shaped for'mergence into the foot by inwardly transferring a constant number of end loops 2!! periodically at opposite edges of the blank with incidental formation of symmetrically arranged lines of fashioning marks at H. After. completion of the blank as explained, I fold the blank longitudinally so that the rough or wale face ofthe fabric is at the outside as indicated by a conventional legend notation in Fig. 1, and then seam up the selvages 2|. Finally the stocking I is reversed with the result that the rough, or wale face of the fabric and the ridge of the seam are at the inside. These last steps are accomplished in substantially the same way as disclosed in Reissue Patent No. 18,757, granted to Brand Beacham on May 7, 1933.

As an alternative, only the zone of the widening of the upper portion of the heel 1 may be formed with use of the three main or body yarns I6. I! and It, in repeating sequence, and the remainder of the stocking I produced from a single main or body yarn.

' It is, of course, to be understood that the number of main or bodyyai-ns maybe varied as desired without departure from the'scope of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim; I

1. As a new article of manufacture, a stocking vage-edged blank having progressively widened upper heel portions in which plural yarns ofthe constitute successive loop v courses in repeating sequence and of which certhe fabric at the inside, and by having the ridge tain courses at recurrent intervals contain added of its rear joining seam also at the inside.

end loops, and lower heel' portions in which a 3. A stocking according to claim 1, wherein the constant number of end loops are progressively heel portions are reinforced by a splicinz yarn transferred inwardly. 5 interkn'itted outward to the selvage loops formed I 2. A stocking according to claim 1 fnrther from the other yarns J characterized by having the rough or wale side of I HARRY E. KATZENMOYER. 

